The Wait

Emmanuel Adiamah

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Caption

Emmanuel Adiamah Ghanian, born 1957. The Wait, 2022. Acrylic, oil pastel and collage on canvas, 65 × 50 1/4 in. (165.1 × 127.6 cm) frame: 66 3/4 × 51 5/8 × 2 in. (169.5 × 131.1 × 5.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of J. A. Forde, 2022.39. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2022.39_PS20.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

Arts of Africa

Title

The Wait

Date

2022

Medium

Acrylic, oil pastel and collage on canvas

Classification

Painting

Dimensions

65 × 50 1/4 in. (165.1 × 127.6 cm) frame: 66 3/4 × 51 5/8 × 2 in. (169.5 × 131.1 × 5.1 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower right corner, recto in black felt tipped marker: "adiamat / N. / '22"

Inscriptions

Canvas inscribed on the verso in lower right: "MiXED MEDiA [underlined] / 'THE WAiT' / 50" X 65" / aDialllait / N. / GHANA / '22"

Credit Line

Gift of J. A. Forde

Accession Number

2022.39

Rights

© artist or artist's estate

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